The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-11-05

gentleman well known IN New Ork
told me that 1t cost him twenty-five thous-
and dollars to be elected a member of Con-
gress. He was elected for two years and
paid for his Office fifteen thousand dollars
more than he received, in addition to which
he had the expense of his living while in
the city of Washington. 1t is said that a
Supreme Judge or Judge of the Court of
Appeals,i is assessed as high as thirty thous-
ana dollars, and these disgraceful funds are
used to prostitute the voters and carry the
election. Wherever the money comes from
there appears to be no lack of 1t in any of
the parties.
Somebody has evidently come to the res
cue of the Republicans, for their headquar
ters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel are like a
bee-hive couriers and campaign speakers
are rushing in and out at all hours of the
day and night, and the most expensive and
costly literature on the tariff. civil service
reform and other important topics, is sent
by tons to every portion of the State where
ever 1t can do most good.
Henry George Is ubiquitous; one daY you
hear of him at Buffalo, the next he turns
up as fresh as a daisy In New York or
Brooklyn; the next afternoon he addresses
the farmers in Chatauqua, and the next
night he is at the extreme point of Long
Island. In addition to Mr. George himself
there Is a large army of workers whose ex-
penses have to be paid, even if they receive
nothing for their services. There are mill
lions of documents going out that have to
be printed, folded and mailed, but Anti
Poverty seems to be equal TO the task and
the work goes briskly on.
| In the beer cellars of the Socialists and
in the dens of the anarchists, business ap-
pears to be exceedingly lively also; Justus
Schwab and Herr Most keep their clans well
together, promising speedy revolution and
slaughter and then division of the spoils.
| The unfortunate mistake at Union Square
where some peole were clubbed by the police,
has not been without its advantages. The
people now see what the police will do upon
emergency. All disturbers of the public peace
begin to understand that we will have no
nonsense in New York. If these foreign
outcasts and criminals come here they must
behave themselves and obey the law. If they
think our institutions are not to their liking,
let them get out-the sooner the better; but
If they remain they must behaye themselves
or we will club common sense into their
thick heads
This is the sgreat season of colonizing,
and all the tramp lodging houses in Paddy
Divers and Fatty Walsh's district are
crammed to suffocation The next week
or ten days will be paradise to the tramps
first class lodgings at twenty-five cents a
night, no more bunking under stoops and
in empty hogsheads on the wharf, regu-
lar square breakfast of hash, pigs feet,
fishballs and coffee, and three drinks of
seYenty-five cent sour mash every day til
election, and a good drink on election day
itself No wonder they think that the
millennium is not far off; but behind this
Elysum frowns winter, bitter and cold,
Blackwell's Island and the penitentary
But every good thing must be paid for in
this world.
1t is hardly safe to prophesy, but from
the thorough organization of the Labor
Party, and the almost religious zeal OF its
workers, it is tolerably certain that they
will poll good vote, but not the sixty-sey
en- thousand which gave Henry George his
boom for Mayor AT that time he received
the vote of every anarchist and socialist r
the city, and in addition to tlrat he had the
active support of Irving Hall. All these
elements are lost TO him now-not simply
, lost but placed in the bitterest antagonist
against him The socialists will go fo
him to man and do their best to pull hin
down; they will try and teach him lessor
that the same power that built him up car
I also destroy him; it is the old fable owe
again of Actaeon eaten by his own hounds
Brooklyn is quite as badyoff as we are il
2 New York. The political ring there which
has been dominated by Boss Mclaughlin
has given mortal offence to some of tn
most sterling Democrats in the city, ant
n there is widespread revolt against tn
n old machine, which gives the Republican
more than an even chance to elect thei
Mayor and probably the sheriff
The case of Miss Morris, an old teache
IT and for fifteen years principal of one of tn
i schools, has stirred up our sister city t
r white heat. The place of Miss Morris wa
= wanted for political heeler ard friend O
one of the Board of Education; but Mis-
10 Morris had not been principal of schoc
II full of young Brooklyn toughs for tftee
a years and refused seventy-two times to tao
A mistress on her name without learning t
take her own part, and this the commltte
man found to his cost. The Board aske
~ her to resign so as to let her down easy, bU
10 in one respect she resembled the offic,
s. holders at Washington, of whom it is sal
"a that few die and none ever resign. Whe
the lady refused to bulge they politely il
formed her that they would put her ou
v This announcement was no sooner mad
n than the strength OF the lady's backing b.
n came quite appalling; pamphlets were priI
~ ted and circulated; whole columns wei
published gra.uitouslY in all the dai
u papers So far from being ineompeten
ne as the Board declare, her friends assertt
ct that she was ore of the very best teache
40 that there is in the city of Brooklyn. I'll
fight is mighty pretty one as 1t stands;
is a woman against the Board of Educalio
but the number of champions who ha'
u, taken up cudgels in her behalf must ha'
~ astonlshed and gratifed her | have I
doubt that in case she is olsted from h
va school one half of them would be willl
- TO marry her, although you may infer fro
=, the fact Of her being fifteen years prime
bo pal and for many years subordinate teac
. er she is not so young as she was VIII,
=. Buchanan was nominated for the Pi eside